What about Rocky Mountain Film Lab' in Colorado? I don't know whether this
is the same K14 process, but ....
http://www.rockymountainfilm.com/
http://www.rockymountainfilm.com/oldfilm.htm
http://www.rockymountainfilm.com/newfilms.htm
http://www.rockymountainfilm.com/K14movie.htm
I recently bought an old camera that had a roll of Kodacolor-X 20-exposure
that was nearly used up. Assuming a few people (like I did when I bought it)
snapped the shutter a time or two after it was bought at an estate sale it
might have a dozen or so shots on it. I don't hold much hope of anything -
but can't bring myself to throw it in the trash.
Cheers
Lee
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From: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Slide Film
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> As I understand it, the machines that run the K-14 Kodachrome process are
> very complicated and very expensive. Doesn't the process have multiple
> steps for developing and pre-flashing each dye layer?
That's what I've been told. It is supposed to be a very complicated
process. I find that even regular E6 is "hard" (though not impossible) to
do in a darkroom, so I would not even consider K14. Although I really love
the results of Kchromes.....
>
> Whatever the methodology, I'd expect Kodak to run the machines until the
> very end, as much of their cost is alredy in the depreciation bucket (not
> withstanding the big maintenance effort they take).
Well, first of all, the K64 and K200 still exist, and I have heard no news
that they are disappearing (but maybe I should get a second
freezer and start stocking up K64, just in case). Secondly, I think, Kodak
knows that the Kchromes has a rather loyal following, and are too smart to
abandon that consumer segment for at least a while.
> I can't imagine that
> there are more than 1/2 dozen places in the world that still can do K-14.
> Am I off my rocker?
>
Nahh, I think not. There is one place in Europe, it's in Lausanne,
Switzerland. There is probably one or two in the US and the same in
Asia. Australia? Well....we may even have a hard time hitting half a dozen
:)
And all else equal, since pretty much everyone are shipping kodakchromes
to get them processed, they could get by with just one K14 processing
plant and still service most of the world ok. I root for the one in
Switzerland being the one to survive, though :)
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Thomas Heide Clausen
Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
M.Sc in Computer Engineering
E-Mail: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
WWW: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~voop
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